Provides a quick, practical guide to the difference between informal and formal kinship care, when social workers should consider kinship care as a placement option, and how to carry out viability assessments.
Covers the tools and services social workers can use to support parents to change behaviours, how social workers can assess whether it may be safe for children to return to their parent's care, and good practice in rehabilitating children home.
Siân (social worker) is meeting with Melanie, a young person living in a residential home. Observe how the young person responds differently to the social worker in each example.
Simulated scenario role-plays of common social work conversations with reflective commentary and questions to help social workers implement relationship-based approaches.
What it means to be transgender, the different ways in which trans people can experience discrimination from social workers and social care services and what good social work with trans people looks like.